{"id":1147,"date":"2012-02-04T13:15:47","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T12:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=1147"},"modified":"2012-02-04T13:16:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T12:16:09","slug":"on-the-same-page-with-virgins-co-founder-sir-richard-branson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/?p=1147","title":{"rendered":"On the same page with Virgin&#8217;s co-founder Sir Richard Branson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in the British newspaper, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sponsored\/earth\/the-age-of-energy\/9057351\/Richard-Branson-Green-Economy.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Telegraph<\/a>, today, Sir Richard Branson, co-founder of the Virgin \u00a0Group, says<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>Business as usual is wrecking our planet. Resources are being used up. Air, sea and land are heavily polluted. The poor are getting poorer. Many are dying of starvation, or because they cannot afford life-saving medicine. Nearly half of the world\u2019s population lives on less than $2 a day and two out of three of these people have no access to drinking water.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sir Richard believes that<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span><span>Probably the greatest frontier is in creating businesses that protect and harness our natural resources \u2013 and reduce our carbon output \u2013 one of the biggest entrepreneurial opportunities of our lifetimes.<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span><span>That puts us\u00a0definitely\u00a0on the same page as Sir Richard.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/sponsored\/earth\/the-age-of-energy\/9057351\/Richard-Branson-Green-Economy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read his whole article here.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing in the British newspaper, the Telegraph, today, Sir Richard Branson, co-founder of the Virgin \u00a0Group, says Business as usual is wrecking our planet. Resources are being used up. Air, sea and land are heavily polluted. The poor are getting poorer. Many are dying of starvation, or because they cannot afford life-saving medicine. Nearly half [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,12,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-envisioning","category-ideas","category-rethinking-money","category-why-we-need-change"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1147"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1150,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1147\/revisions\/1150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avbp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}